Let's start with the name, which is Kyoung-Ju Choi on the birth certificate. But you can call him K.J. Heck, Choi came up with that one himself at his very first British Open in 1998. Now, they have no problem getting his name right. It's K.J. Choi, and he'll be teeing off in the final group of a major on the weekend.

Mother and son huddled together, battered and beaten, in the bathroom -- sobbing, wondering why no one came to help. Surely the neighbors had heard their screams. The walls are thin, the screen doors flimsy in this violence-plagued housing project on the edge of downtown.

Mother and son huddled together, battered and beaten, in the bathroom sobbing, wondering why no one came to help. Surely the neighbors had heard their screams. The walls are thin, the screen doors flimsy in this violence-plagued housing project on the edge of downtown.

Air quality in the San Joaquin Valley reached unusually unhealthy levels last week, thanks to a combination of triple-digit heat, high ozone levels and Fourth of July firecrackers, officials said Monday.

Fire and ice haven't been kind to the fabled Lake Tahoe resort region this year. An unusually dry winter kept ski resorts short of snow and wildfires destroyed more than 200 homes and other buildings just before Independence Day celebrations. But tourism officials now claim the area is open for business.

The judge in record producer Phil Spector's murder trial reversed an earlier ruling in the case Monday and decided to allow jurors to hear damaging testimony from a celebrity security guard who says that in the early to mid-1990s he heard Spector rant profanely against women and declare that they should all be shot in the head.